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Senate passes compromise pretrial amendments to limit wealth-based detention
Summary
Senators passed House Bill 2,003, described as a multi-stakeholder compromise to move pretrial decision-making away from wealth-based detention toward risk-based assessment, require judicial consideration of ability to pay for monetary conditions, and establish an indigency affidavit and pilot program.
The Utah Senate passed House Bill 2,003 (pretrial amendments) after the bill's sponsor described it as the product of months of stakeholder work and compromise. The clerk announced the final tally as 26 yea votes, 1 nay, 2 absent.
Senator Wyler, who presented the bill, said the measure codifies limits on pretrial conditions and the judge's obligation to impose only conditions that are "reasonably available and…
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